Diplomatic Relations

To lure tourists to her city, the mayor of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
has built an embassy for the fictional country of Portikrania. But when the State
Department and mafia get involved, her scheme explodes into a comedy of
Pennsylvanian proportions.

Characters

Productions

Riant Strawberry One-Act Festival (New York, August 2010)

Backstory

My childhood babysitter grew up in Wilkes-Barre and moved back fifty years
later to find the city well past its prime. I started thinking about what a politician would
have to do to save Wilkes-Barre; Diplomatic Relations was my best guess.